The applause hasn’t died down yet. Turin International Book Fair, to the standing ovation of 500 people (in the Sala dei 500 completely shaved), which Emmanuel Carrere, On Sunday evening, May 21, he was awarded European Strega Prize with his V13 Court reporting, which he dragged around Italy for months to declare it with all its emotional load. Each year, a jury of 24 writers and writers, winners or finalists of the Premio Strega announces a European winner, chosen from among the male and female writers whose works have been translated into Italian, in fact the prize also goes to the translator who won the important house prize. Carrer with his V13, Judicial Chronicleis the original title given Prix Ajourd’hui and the Italian edition published by Adelphi translated by Francesco Bergamasco. The European Strega Prize, established in 2014, has reached its tenth edition.promoted by the Maria and Goffredo Bellonci Foundation, Strega Alberti Benevento, in collaboration with Bper Banca, the International Book Fair and the Turin Reading Circle Foundation.
Avoiding all genres and cataloging, Carrera’s book is a collection of his daily hearing reports. trial in Paris in connection with the November 13, 2015 attacks on the Bataclanat the Stade de France and at various bistros, a position he accepted on behalf of New Observator. His articles then appeared weekly in major European newspapers. In the end, the writer reworked this huge amount of official first-person testimony and the enormous weight of community pain into a book, a single source that one could try to refer to. understand the horror, do not forget. Because it’s written that way. We go, we see, we tell. “If there is no story, I don’t write,” he repeated several times in various presentations. B13.
A principle he has always adhered to. He already did it with the book In Calais (Adelphi)a clear account of the thousands of refugees camped in the mud in a French town, waiting to be sent to England. He did it like a director cinematic. He made, between a documentary and a feature film, a film Ouistreham (Italian name Between two worlds), presented at Cannes 2021 with Juliette Binoche, highlighting the working conditions of women cleaning cross-Channel ferries from France to the UK. Exhausting shifts, always night, no family life and normal relationships, little money, so many pipe dreams.
He said this during the presentation V13 at the Turin Salon, talking about Europe, about the war in Ukrainethat he is not an expert in geopolitics, but if you don’t see it with your own eyes, you don’t understand, and to say what you see does not mean to substantiate. The same situation in Milan, a few weeks earlier, at the Piccolo Teatro Strehler, the same huge line for signing copies, where he said he would like to go to Russia to see how things are, how people are. Here comes the awards evening at the Reading Cluboppressed by questions about this Europe between wars and migrations, about the problem of reception, could not resist, she already found her story to tell, has already prepared a witness trip. This summer he will board the ship “Doctors without borders” off the coast of Libyato see the tragedy of migrants with my own eyes and then write about it.
V13 Court reportingEmmanuel Carrer, Adelphi
It all started on September 8, 2021, exactly therethe date of the trial for the Friday, November 13, 2015 attacks and their perpetrators.which had killed 130 people and injured more than 350 six years earlier. The process that Carrer followed every day for almost 10 months, sitting in a white box erected in the courtroom of the Paris Court, with other people, survivors, families of the victims, journalists with whom you shared fears, pain, memories, even moments of comfort, tell the court chronicle in the first person, but also explain that you are so write. A diary of images and emotions that became news and then a book. The story is divided into three parts: Victims, defendants, Court. First chapter Back to the benches, explains both the genesis and intent of the book, is a program and a program presentation, is a diary and a chronicle. This is a writer who becomes a journalist to talk about what happened on November 13, 2015, when unsuspecting people were having dinner, having fun, watching a football match in places they always visited, and where instead they found hell and death.
Carrer wants to say that he is not an Islamist or an Arabist, so he could not analyze or make judgments, but he could delve into the stories of people, murderers and the circles they often entered and where they came from, in order to understand the origin of the facts, assuming that the origin of evil can be understood. Tell in defendantswho were the men and women of this armed jihadist commando, and the sole survivor of Salah Abdeslam, one of the organizers, but a small fish, sentenced to life imprisonment. V13 this is not just a chronicle, but a detailed account of the trialhearings, testimony, this is the story of the victims told by those who remainsurvivors who survived thanks to the help of others, it is the story of a court and a nation, and of men and women who sought justice, not revenge., is an official document that will remain over time and will always be available for review. It was a huge emotional release for both the author and the reader. This is a journey through hell, from which, according to Carrera, he came out profoundly changed.but we, having reached the end, will no longer be the same as before. That’s why it’s a must read.
Source: Elle